Lichdom is also one of the few games this generation running on CryEngine 3. The PC version - also featured - is actually pretty good and a lot of fun. Lichdom on console has to be seen to be believed.

In comparison, while still very sluggish, v-sync is active on the PS4 version. The end result is a game with constant tearing - and it's a level of performance so poor that we actually found it difficult to look at the screen for more than a few minutes at a time. To make matters worse, if you're unlucky enough to play the game on Xbox One, you'll be treated to the same incredibly low frame-rate - and v-sync is disengaged too.

We've run the rule over a multitude of titles since we started frame-rate testing console games back in 2008 - and we're pretty sure we've never seen anything quite as bad as this. On top of that, frame-time latencies can be astonishingly high with some remarkable stutter. In fact, the PlayStation 4 clocks up an average frame-rate of just 15fps across the run of play, with dips as low as 10fps. There's no beating around the bush here - Lichdom is a game that rarely manages to deliver a frame-rate north of twenty frames per second. We've run through the likes of Broforce, The Last Tinker, Assassin's Creed Unity and even Shadow of Mordor on PlayStation 3 - but nothing quite matches what we're witnessing here.

Lichdom is a console port of a two-year-old PC game that also happens to be one of the worst performing console games we've ever tested. You may not be familiar with Lichdom: Battlemage, but after reading this, you may not be able to forget it either.

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